Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1874, Page 4

' THE GHICAGO DAILY 'TRIBUNE _FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1874. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE . TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). Bedi S a0l iy Parts of 8 yesr at the same rate. 2 To prevent delay snd mistakes, bo suro and give Post Ofice sdress i= full, including State and County:. - Remittances may bo made efther bydratt, express, Post Othice order, oric registered lotiers, at our risk. H TERMS TO OITY SUBSCRIBEES. , Datls, deliverod, Sunday excepted, 25 cente per woek. Deily, celirored, Sundas incloded, 30 eents per woek. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cerner Biadison aud Dearbo TO-DAY'S, AMUSEMENTS. A'VICEER'S THEATRE—Mzdison streot, batween Deasbora ad - Sista. Eagacement of Edwin Bootl HOOLEY’S THEATRE—Randolph street, betwees Clark and LaSalle. ** Divorced.” EMY OF MUSIC—Halstod stroet, betwoan Mad- e o Engagemont of Ollvor Doud Byron: *Donald McKay." ADELPEI THEATRE-Commer of Wabsh svonue ~30d Oongresa street. Varietyontortainment. 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Manafac, Parea naly by A. B. WILBOR, Cbonust, Boston. Sold by all druggists. The Chicags Teibune. Fridey Morning, February 27, 1874. = The Ohio Benate yesterdsy decided that it ‘had the right to Lear and decide. the contest between Weimer and Welsh for the election to the Btate Treasnryship. This decision was adverse to the argament of Welsh’s counsel, who decided that the Senate had no such jurisdiction. The vote was & partisan one. [ —— There was some talk yestcrday in the Domin- Ton Board of Trade, now in session at Ottc-vs, about reciprocity with tha United States snd abeat the tariff question. Concerning this lat- ter, a resolution was offered thatthe ‘present average of 15 per cent was fair enough for all tnterests, and that no change was worth while. An smendment was offered for an increase of dnties to 20 per cent, but no action was had. ———— Bir Garnet Wolseley has reached Coomassie, fter fivo daye’ hard fighting, and ihe loss .of bundredsof men and pear a score of officers. All this bloodshed is not the price of peace, for that was offersd beforehand by the King, but was paid for the glory of entering the Capital of the Ashantees. The. British commander tele- graphed yesterday that treaty of peace was to heve been signed that day, and that he expected 1o begin the march back to the coast at once. In & dispateh from Daaville, Til., printed this moraing, is given an account of eninvestigation made some years sgo into the Pekin Distillery fraudc by Wiliam M. Bandy, The frands were immeuse then, and Bandy beganto unearth them with success. Abcut that time some “influence™ or other transferred him to the regular army, 2nd the matter was dropped. Some very inter- estiny suggestions are mado &8 to tho responsi- Dility for this meglect, and_the indisposition of the District Attorney to prosccute the defrauding distillere. e If it takes the Senate an unconscionably long time to determine whether or not to inflate the eurrency, it displays no such procrastination in dealing with the currency on band. Yesterdsy It congnmed an hour in deciding whether or not to. consider the Naval Appropriation bill, which, when taken up, was passed in fiftcen: minutes. As the appropristions amount to- 818,000,090, thia was at the rate of £1,200,000 = minute which is suficiently rapid. The Senate has sagreed io Senator Bherman’s motion to posipone the financial debats till next Tuoadsy. The House of Representatives is petitioned by eome of the peoplo of Western Arkansas to im- peach United States District . Judge Btory, of that Btate. The petition recites nineteen counts for the impeachment. The charges cover nearly #very kind of judicial corruption, and injustice towards litigants, juries, and members of tho Bar. Heis said to have bribed lawyers of his court to bring false charges sgainst others ; to bave instigated prosecutions for perjury against * persons who testified sgeinst him before. the Grand Jury; and to bave packed Grand Juries to prevent himself from being indicted.~ — Rafferty has now no hope except that which mey be found in 8 Power beyond the grave, and sbove supersedeas or commutation. -Gov. Bev- eridge yesterday declinod to interfere with the sehtence of the Court in any way, and not many hours aré now left of the murderer's last dny of life.” Among the appeals the Governor has been compelled to listen to. has been one from citi- wens of Waukegan, beggiog that that sensitive village may not bo subjected to the indignity of being made the scene of the execntion. A majority of two votes was all that the House of Representatives could muster against the franking - privilego yeaterday, and- even those, it is believed, would have been wenting bad not the ayes and noes been called for. Mr. Hurlbut's bill to restora the franking p rivilege in all ita ancient grossness was defeated, only 49 members being in its favor. The origin'd bill giving free carrisge_ throngh the mails to public doczments, garden seeds, and newspapers with- in the connty of publication, was then defeated by 181 to 129. : The Chicago produce markets were less activo yedterdsy in grain, with more doing in provisons. Moss pork was active, and 15c per brl lower, elosing at §18.87%@13.90 cash, and $14.13%@ 14.15 seller Apnl. Lard wes active, and 15@ 200 pér 100 Ibs lower, closing at 68.55@8.57¢ cash, and $8.723§@8.75 eeller April. * Meats were sctive, and 35¢ per Ib lower, at 4%@50 for. ahonldars, 73$@7% for short ribs, 7360 for short- clesr, and 9X@103oc for swest pickled hams. . Dressed-- hogs - wers quiet and 6. per, 100 Ibs. - Highwines and @10 lower, st 93 per gallon. Fionr.was dull and unchanged. Wheat o lower, closing 2t 8L16 er Maroh, - Oorn was in bet- . Nema— re pronounced hops- [ ter demand, and - firmer, closing st 57c cash, aod 573{c seller March.” Osts were guict snd o higher, closing st 423¢c cash, and 48%c seller April. Bye wea quiet, and steady st 850 for frash- receipts. Batloy was dull and casler, closing at §1.45 for No. 8. Live hogs wero quiet and easier, closing wepk at 5@100 decline; gales at 3450@6.25. Cattle and sheep wero active and firm. ” e Senator Sumner makes the first response to President Grant's recommendation that Con- fress pay tho bills for tho Philadelphia Centen- nial. In speaking sgainst Mr. Cameron’s Cen- _tennial bill, he said that it was but an entering wedgo into the United States Treasury. If it were admitted, ho had no doubt the thrifty Philadelphians would end by getting a8 ‘much out of Congress 58 the Benate had just appropriated for the navy, which was 18,000,000 Tho Senate refused to consider the bill by a vote of 38 to 2. g —— The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has sus- tained the right to the seats of the ladios elected to the Boston Bchool Board. Its decision was clear, unmistakable, ‘aud unanimous, and the eminent jurists who compose that Court made their decision upon general principles, withont racognizing any of tho quibbles which bad been mads by tho School Committee. Notwithstand- ing this decision, the School Board have sgain voted sgainst admitting the 1adies to their seats. This amounts simply to pereccution of the ladics and contempt of the Supreme Court, and for both these disgracetul acts the School Board ‘onghé to be punished atleast by removal from their places. Betting on the result of the boat-race between Cambridge and Oxford crews, to come off March 28, i8 two to one in favor of Cambridge, whose crews have: been -singularly successful of late years. fi‘mm*‘mifl to 1869 Cambridge won but thres rices, those for 1856, 1858, and 1860. Bat in 1870, after an unioterrupted series of ninede- feats, Cambridge recovered herself, and has been the victor in the last four races. In another ,column we print a tabular record of all the races since 1829, giving the winners, the courses, with their measurements, the time, and the like in- formstion; which will be very unintoresting to Col. Higginson and the other sdvocates of inter- collegiate scholarship contests. — Asmighthavebeen expected,the saloon-keepers of this city, with an enterprize purely Chicagoan, are organizing crusades against themselves, solely with a view to advertising their business. ‘In » large number of bar-rooms yesterdsy notices wore posted that prayer-meotings would be held there by women ai & given hour. The aesired result of a large and thirsty crowd was essily secured in this way. In ome saloon 500 men gathered to await the arrival of the praying bends. The customers of many other places were thus increased. The women engaged in the movement must be disgusted to find that their zoal is used to feed the flame they want to quench. e Both the Massachusetta Senators are reported to have spoken against the confirmation of Sim- mons as Collector of Boston - yesterday, in the executive session of tho Senate. Benator Bout- well is credited with saying, in the roport which he made on the nomination, that *'this man must not be confirmed.” Nothing half so good 28 this was hoped of Mr. Boutwoll by the Repub- lican papers of Boston, which, by their prayers and threats, have showed plainly that they ex- pected him to be led by all his old political in- stincts to vote for putting Simmons in the Cus- tom-House. When & vote was taken, 20 Sena- tors were opposed to confirmation and 16 were infavorof it. As this showed two less than a quorum voting, the matter has gone over till to- day, when it is expocted that Simmons will ba rejocted and another defeat administered to Butler. The motion to quash the second indictment for perjury found sgaiost David A. Gage was argued before Judge Moore yesterdsy. Mr. Gage's counsel insisted that tho second 18 ma- terially the same as the first indictment, and that Mr, Gage has been - charged with perjury for taking an oath which he was not required to take by law, both on account of the omission of the word ‘“‘unlawful” provided for by the amended statute, and the lapse of time between the filing of accounts and their attestation under osth. These positions were controverted by the Stato's Attorney, and very much tho same first argument, The matter was taken under advisemont by the.Court. The counsel for the defense also gave notice yesterday of their pur- pose to move for a change of venue when tho case is called for trial noxt Tuesday. THE NEW PARTY IN IOWA. About six months ago, & hastily-convened acd heterogereons convention nominated the first State tickst of the Anti-Monopoly party of Iowa. The party wentinto the fight withont ofganization, without funds, withont hope.- There was the ghost of & Central Committée &t Des Moines, in the shape of one man, who conducted the scanty correspondence that devolved upon him. His report, submitted after the election, shows an exponditure of less than $5 during the whole campaign! The Beformers, forced to fight guer- rilla-tashion, failed to elect their State ticket, but did elect over sixty members of the Logislaturs. When. that' body met, Keformers nnd Re- poblicans were found to be of equal strength in ome branch of it. After ballot- ing for goveral days in a vain sttempt to elect officers, & compromise was made and the ofices were equably divided among the old party and the new one. 'This was the greater triumph ‘because the Republican press and speakers had discussod, during the canvass, the propriety of allowing Republicans elected on the Opposition ticket to enter the regular caucus on showing the due signs of repentance snd making the necessary apologies. It was not yot decided whether the contrite sinners should be let into the caucus of the faithful at once, or should be puton probation, when it was discovered that the sinners didn't BorTow worth a cent, but flatly ‘refused to cancus with the Republicans on any terms whatever. Instead, they held their own .cancus, and elected their share of the officers. Bince then, the Reformers of Iowa have been seking themselves: *If wo did g0 much when we tried so little, what cannot wo do if we try our best?” The guestion will be answered at the polls next fall. The Reformers mean to try their best. Their Convention at Des Moincs on Wednesdsy was attended by 414 delegates from 64 counties, and was onthusiastic, harmonious, and wise. The koy-note to popular feeling was struck by Mr. B. B. Harbour, of Mahasks, when he said: P S p Ve moet under peculiarly encoursging circumstan- cem. Afew months sgo, this movement was looxed upon 28 a feebls sttemptto insugurates reform. Thoss men are here immediately fram the peopls. TLiz ‘movement 15 to protect aud preserve our country from ground was waversed as that covered by the | the ravages of class-legislation. It mesns reform and, retrenchment ; {t meansno preferred interests, ‘Wo aust r1d ourselves of the tyranny of monopolies, The time has come when we must open our ports fo uni- versal commerce. [Applause.] Tho party that scorned -| ‘us sesterdsy fesr us—they tremblo now; and well they may. The pooplo mean well. They do Dot pro- pose to injure any one for the interests of the farm- ers, but simply and_ only o have fair and just logisls- tioni, The Republicans canmot claim any advantage over the Democrats, nor vice versa. Wo can hope for nothing from either, We need rellef from both the old partics, They capnot cure our ills,’ The promi- nent loaders of the Bepublican party aro ex-Copper- heads. . [Applause.] Designing men always scek, and usually obtain, placo in dominant partics, and acquire tho leadership. We iust robuko and remedy the evil 28 best and az 8oon 08 wo can. Purity must be our first object, and economy must ever bs our watchword. After a few such stirring speeches, the Con- vontion proceeded todo the two things it was called together in order todo. It elected a State Central Committce, and adopted a platform which is 3 phenomenon among- platforms in asy- ing clearly and strongly what it has tosay. It Joes not seek to rope-in protectionists and rev- enue-reformers by ambiguons phrases. It reads as follows : In order to define our position, we, in convention assemblod, submit £o a candid public, a3 o basis of our ‘political action, the following resolutions : Pirst—That the primary object of a froe republican Government is the proper protection af persons and property, and that fower and simpler law faithfully administered will best secure this end. Second—That we are in favor of political refarm, and 1o that end we dumand bonosty, economy, and purity in official Ufe,. Third—That we repudiste the doctrine that *To the victors belong the spoils,” but instead thereof we aro infavor of & truo system of Civil-Service Reform, making honesty and capacity the only valid claims for public employment. Fourth—That in s protective taril we recognizo & monopoly, and We are therefore opposed to it; and that we demand freo iron, stcel, salt, lumber, and woolen fabrics, and thata tariff on importations is Justifisblo for revenue purposes only. Fuyth—That all corporations are subject to legislative contrel ; that thoso created by Congress should be, re- stricted and controlled by Congress, sud that those under State laws shiould be subject to the control of {he Btate croating them ; that while we recognize the -value of railroads, and will in all proper ways encour- ago thelr construction, yet, whilo enjoying valusbls {ranchises, they should bear their full burden of taxa~ ‘tion, snd receive on the capital invested no more than 2 just and Iawful interest, and should chacgo ouly a Just and equitable rate for transportation and travel, Sizth—Thst we favor such wodifications of our banking system as will extend its benefits to the whole people, and thus destroy a Thonopoly now enjoyed by - favored few, Seventh—That wa are opposed to all grants of Iands to railroads or other corporations, and believe that what 1n left of the public domain should be held sacred for the actual settler, Eighth—That the protended repeal of the back- salary law, after the appropriation of the grav, both ‘befare and after services performed by many members of Congress, and the failure to apply to the President, 183 gross fraud upon tho public, and nothing short of on unqualified repeal will satisfy tho just demands of tho people. Ninth—That we deny the alleged necessity of a Stato Printer and Binder, or a party organ supported by public patronsge, and demand that all public work, ‘both Btate and county, be let by contract to the lowest Tesponaible bidder. . # Tenth—That the election of over sixty members of the General Assembly, with sn incomplete orgamzation, 18 a complete demonetration of the justice of our cause, and & promise of ita early triumph in the State sud nation. . Eleventh—That in the Tammany steal, the Credit- Mobilier fraud, the Congressional salsry swindle, and official embezzlements, and ‘tho bundreds of other combinations, stexls, frsuds, and swindles by which the Democratic and Republican leglalators, Congress~ men, sud officeholders have enriched themselves, de- frauded the country, and impoverished the people, we find tho necessity of independent action andthe im- portance of united offort, and cordislly invite all men, of whatever calling, business, trade, or Yocation, re- gardless of past political views, to join us in removing the evils that so serjously affect nsall, ‘We commend this wise and moderate series of resolutions to the New York World and the Na- tion. Both these papers have solemnly buried the new movement. Their obituary notices were of first—clags length. - And yet, deapito the fune-: ral 8o decorousiy conducted, the corpse proves to be remarkably lively. It refuses to be dead, although assured of the fact by such eminent doctors. The Congressional elections of mext fall will prove its vigor, even to them. The World will find in the fourth plank of this plat- form an outspoken declaration for rovenue-re- form ansh aa no Namaoratia anvantism, Qoopits the World's earnest” appeals,” would ever dare to make, It will -nowhere find a trace of the *sgrarianiem” with which it recontly taunted * Tue CmicAco TRBUSE and its frionds, the farmers.” The Nation will ind something on the subject of Civil-Service Re- form. The éighth resclution is & well-aimed blow at Grant, - the first and chief of salary- grabbers. The eleventh is s telling 1hdictment sgainst both the old parties. On the platform, 28 a whole, * all men, of wha tever calling, busi- ness, trade, or vocation, regardless of past political views,” can well “ join in ramaving the evila that so seriously affect ugall.” Towa will elect nine Congressmen next fall. It is important that the Reform party ghonld show .its strength in that elec- tion.. It can easily send back to Wash- ington pure men, pledged to its sdmirable platform, provided 1t chooses the pure men a8 its nominees. Too much care cannot bo taken to guard against designing politicians, It would be better to nominate good men and be dofeated for years than to win victory forthwith by “ fighting the devil with fire,"—corrnption with bargain-and-sale ; but it will also be well to guarantes their fitness by selecting them among men of brains. Honesty alone would soon be outwitted at Washington. Let the Reform party of Towa put men of both mind and morality on ita platform,and its victory in October ia certain. THE “ LICENSE SYSTEM.” The recent conferenco of the Boards of Health and Police and sundry Aldermen to devise some method of regulating the socal ovil has again brought this vexed question into publis promi- rence. Pending any-nction by these authori- ties, it is only prudent to “inquire whether the system of regulation by license, which is the system under discussion, accomplishes any good. It ia not unreasonable that the authori- ties should wish to place it under some sort of control, inasmuch as it is impossible to extin- guish it by police regulation, and the patrons of prostitutes are not tho only ones’ who suffer, but 1t is the height of folly to rush into the adoption of a system withont inquiring first whether it will accomplish what is claimed for it. 5 %3 Fortunstely wo have the testimony of Prof. Andrews, of this city, who, a few years 8go, went to Earope for the purpose of ‘examining the licenso syeter, and who published the results in a very compact and conclusive ghape. The French regulation plan is now in operation in France, Spain, Italy, Hollaod, Belgium, and Prussia, at military and naval ‘ stations in England, and in the City of Bt. Louis in this country. The general features of this plan are compulsory ‘registration, examination at stated periods, and a quiet, ordérly life, under the serntiny of the police, The plan is varied some- ‘what in 8t. Louis, s singls physician going the rounds of the houses, and ardering such inmates” to the hospital as he thinks ought to go, instesd of requiring them to come to specified places and meet two or more physicians. v s TUpon thése tWo points of compulsory regis- tration and compuliory treatment, Dr, Andrews contributes some: very important informstion, gathered from official statistics snd personal obseryation, . which show how ineffective both thess precsutionary measures are. With re- gard to registration, it is shown that the women in Europe evade it by every means in their power. In Brussels, in 1868, there were 816 registered women and 850 unregistered, and of " the registered over one-half were diseased during that year, In. Rotterdam, 313 were registered, while the actusl arrests of clandestices were 141, from" which the large number of others whom the police cannot convict msy be inferred. In Paris, thero were 8,853 on the books, and 80,000 who had escaped registration.. In Berlin, 1,650 were registered, and 13,306 were suspected by the pclice. The general average of statistics in the European cities shows that'mine-tenths of tho women will not register, but escape it by finding secret opportunities to ply their vocation in hired spartments, and very ‘often by hiring themsolves out 48 domestics. The effort to keep them in brothels under police regulation was, and still is, a failore, In all the European cit- ies, the number of registered women falls off year by year. In Paris, in 1857, there were 1,967 women in the brothels, while in 1867 they had diminished t0'1,802, and in the othér cities the diminution in the pumber of brothels and of licensed women is in the same proportion. The failure of the license system to diminish disense, which is the strongest argnment against copying it in this country, is even more ‘marked than the failuro of the registration plan. The operation of the Contagions-Disessos act of 1806, which was applied to five districts in England, for the express purpose of improving the health of the army and navy, furnishes some signifi- cant results. For five years before the act there was an annual diminution of 21 admissions to hospital per 1,000 of mean strength, while, for the two years after the act, the diminution was only 12 per 1,000 annually. The oper- ation of the act on tho Dritish army in Bengel - was perfectly gimilar, ad- rmissions to hospital under it ‘having increased from 166 to 199 per 1,000 of mean strength. In the French army, the same results aro socn, and al80 in the army of Holland. In tho latter, be- foro the licensing system wss put in operation, there were, in 15,918 soldiers, 1,786 cazes of dis- easo, equal to11.2 per cent, but since the act atempting forcible registration tho casos havo incrensod to 13.8 percont. A comparison of fig- ures showing the proportion of disesses treated in clvil hospitals where 1o license system exists with those in cities where the liconso does exist, ghows that theyare 5 or 6 per cent more abun- dant in the cities which have tho system than in those which donot. The inexorable figures aleo show that liceosing increases the patronage of vice, and conzequently increases prostitation. In cities whera it is licensed, the proportion of regular prostitutes is 24 per cent greater than in anlicensed cities. With such evidence s this of the demoraliz- ng effect of the Europoan system, we shouid ocertainly hesitate to copyit. The romedies which iDr. Androws suggests ire just as effective now as they were when he first made thom. These remodies are: 1. A strictly tacit toleration of the orderly prostitates by the polico; s privato classified registry; free hospital assistance for the disessod, both male and femalo; and fines and imprisonments for the disorderly. 2. Anew plan of legal management, by which the police ghall move side by side with the friends of hu- manity and religion. 8. A larger degree of assistance and encouragement for the roforma- tory Institutions, If the police suthoritios and society moving hand inhand csnnot regulste the sgocial evil, it will be uscless to enforca licensing systems, and especially & system like the Europesn, which statistics show increases rather than diminishes the evil. , p—————— . FREE BANKINRG, o the Editer of The Chicago Tribune : Sm: Doesnot your cditorial on Fres Banking in Friday's ssue lack sound logic? Currency consiats of greenbacks and bank-notes, Their prosent aggregate 18506 15 excesaive, aa denoted by the ‘gold premima. Incresso their quantity, and we have inflation; in- crease eimply the bank-notcs, the. whole carrcncy is nevertheless added to, and inflation zesults the same. You say not, bocause the bank-notes (one portion of the currency) are redeemablo in greenbacks (another portion af the currency). But one is no better than the other; consequently no redemption will be demanded, and infistion inevitable. Thero is oms exception, however, Wwhen groenbacks are wanted 10 hold as reserves, ss required by law, against bank- note- circulation, that might arise under cestatn im- probable circumstances; but, when it is considered that not more than 15 per cent is tho average amount required, snd that $356,000,000 green- backs woula furnish enough reserve for §2,373,- 333,33 of bank-noto cireulation, ar nearly six times that now ontstanding, sucha contingency would bo very remote, This cannot be disputed, One hundred thousand dollars pew bank currency requires only 15,000 groenbacks ‘to bo contracted when hold ns ro- serve. Is mot, then, éhe currency inflated $85,0007 How long would it takn to coniract the currency through this method?, We would reach.resumption about 8a soon as the fablod frog’ gets out of the well, by ono step forward and two backward. In the En- glish system alinded to, Bank of England notes wero considered better than country bils, and the long- established custom of central redemption was contin- wod oven under suspension. In this country, no pref- ezenco ia shown botween greenbacks and bank-notes ; they are universally treated tho sume; and therefors the English system s not a parallel to judge by. 4 Freo Banking,” without redemption in- coln, can only be recommended st this time with a provision to retire equal smounts of groenbacks as new bank-notes sre fssued, unless the interests of inflation are to ba promoted ; which TEE TRIBUNE claims to oppose £8 injurious to the best interests of the country. . “ Free Banking " without these restrictions is infiation ; and {18 cannot be refuted, nor proved to the contrary, by all tho political economists, amateur financlers, sstute Senators, sble editors, and Tre TorsuNe included. 1 tho proof can be given, and made, cloar to your resd- ers, that thia position is ncorroct, I will acknowledgs it handsomels. < Really, Mr, Editor, Tam surprised that Tz Tam- U ia 80 carried awsy by the jdes of “Freo Banking” without its neccssary ndjuncts: contraction of green- ‘backs ot redemption in coin. ‘Let us have s rehearing in this case, F. B, CouNDLER, ANSWER. Mr. Chandler assumes that Free Banking, un- der the terms of the existing law, wonld result in an ineresse of the currency. This is the very point which we do not concede. For every 890 in currency obtained under the law, $115 of capital must be putup as security, and 823 in greenbacks 1aid away as & reserve. Then, what- ever increase in deposits ariges from the in- crease of currency calls for an addition to the greenback reserve. The reserve sgainst depos- its exceeds tho reserve against circulation by more thsn two to cne. As amatter of fact, some of the National Banks of Chicago have voluntarily retired their circulation, or such por- tion of it a8 they could collect, during the past yesr, and are still doing 8o, taking up their bonds, and employing the capital invested in them more profitably in other ways, We are not so uninformed as to suppose that » greenback and & National Bank note, both ciroulating in the hands of the people, do not oqually perform the fanctions of carrency, and, if we conld suppose that the conditions of the Banking law were such as to favor an increase of the ‘sggregats_irredeemabla circulation, we should be opposed to free banking. To passs free banking Iaw does not estop any measures for a restoration of specie payments. The measure of the depreciation .of the whole is exactly the measure of the depreciation of tho greenbacks. - The bank-notes are redeemsble in greenbacks, and the greenbacks'redeemsable in nothing. Yet there have been times within two or threo yoars past when greenbacks com- manded a preminm over National Bank noted in ' New York, and such a preminm would certainly exist, and increase, if tho™ preportion of “bank- notes to greenbacks becamé large, and would forco & gystom of practical rodemption like that’ which prevailed tn Enpgland under a suspension of epecie payments at the beginning of the preaent century. Y e are happy to recognize in Mr. Chandler. & person capsble of “thinking straight™ on the currency question, but we spprohend that he has overlooked one important element of free banking, viz.: the requirement to put up more capital than ia received back in currency. We have not gonointo the actual profits of note- circulation under the present law, but we are satisfiod that, in this soction of the country at least, there is little or no profitin it, and little or no inducement to anybody to avail himself of the supposed advantages of it. THAE WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS. On tho 4th of November Iast, the Republican party in Wisconsin, tho party which for eighteen years had guided the destinies of the Btate, was by an overwhelming majority, if not by an over- whelming vote, driven from powsr, Itsdefeat was not expected by the Republicaus, nor antici- pated, although devoutly hoped for, by the Re- formera. At tho hesd of the Republican tickat stood one of Wisconsin's very best men,—the Hon. 0. 0. Washburn. There were on it the names of some less distinguished and leés ablo men, it is true. Thoe selection of can- didates might, in a couple of instances, have been better. But tho character of the nomineés of the Republican party cannot account for its dcfeat. Neither can - that of the Reform candi- datcs acconnt for their election, although tho ticket was a very good one. Taken all in all, it may be doubted whether the personnel of tho Reform ticket ' was' sny belter than that of the Republican. The Re- publicans of Wisconsin, themselves, recognize that it wsa not, to any extent, the personal un- popularity of tho candidates that caused their defeat. The Reformers recognize that, respect- able as were their candidates, it was neither their popularity nor ability that insured their succass. Tho Republicaus endesvor to explain thoir loss by the apatby of tho rank and file of tho party. They forget, however, that an spa- thetic party man is no party man at all; that he canpot bo relied upon, snd should not be counted as belonging to the 'organiza- tion. Wilen they grant that the men of their party were too lazy or too indifferent to go to the polls, they grant that the party had lost all hold mpon them, or well nighlostit. Itmat- ters littlo, when the battle comes, whether the soldier throws down his arms and runs away, or whether be romains at n, distance, a carcless spectator of the conflict, Of political parties it may bo said, with entire truth, that -he ‘who i8 not for them is against them. The Repub- lican party of Wisconsin - meed, thers- fore, take no comfort from the apathy of those who onco belonged to it. It bad better mourn over them as deserters of tho flag. The party whose members act as if it did not exist is, if uot dead, certainly very sick. " Again, the Republican party of Wisconsin have tried to explain their defeat by the reaction of the people from -political. excitement after the Presidential election.. But this can no more ac- count for it than can tho apathy theory. Reac- tion always followa action, it is granted. It is granted, too, that reaction is equal and in oppo- sito dlrections. Bat raantion from political ox— citement does mot imply indifference to the Be- publican party only. The Presicential election had taken place o year before, and the reaction from political zeal into political lukewarmness had ample time to wear awsy. -Before our Wis- consin friends can go to sleep over this explana- tion of the Republican rout last fall, they had better inquirs why they were not beaten periodi- cally for the last eighteen years after each Presidential election. ‘No; the causes of the Ropublican defoat lie deepor than all this. The passage of an irrational Temperance Iaw had something to do with it. But this, although it contributed to, does not explain, their defeat. Tho defeat of the Republican party was incident- ally the saccess of thoso opposed to well-inten- tioned but unreasonable temperanco legislation. 8till, Beor could never havo alone effected " the change in the politics of the State of Wisconsin. Another csuso thaé contributed to the over- throw of the party was the ignoring on the tioket of the German element. No party in Wisconsin_ that values success can afford to ignore the Ger- man population of the State. Theirs is & good’ portion of the wealsh of the community. . They. are good citizens. They bave numbers, and aro conscious of their power. They have in the past given the Staie Government some of its” most efficient cficers. It has been generally conced- ' ed that thoy are entitled to representation on the | State ticket. The Republicans snubbed them ot the lset election, and left = them without a representative. Of this the Reformers took ndvantage. “But not' even’ the alliance of Beer and Germany are sufficient of themselves to account for the change. * It can be explained only by the corraption which had cropt into the party, tho corrupt ceucus and convention-system, the Credit Mobilier and back-psy grab; the de-’ fense of that steal in the Janegville speech made by Beantor Carpenter, in which, as sonicbody bas. said, with Mephistophelean scumen and sublime effrontery, be told the honest people of Wiscon- gin that it would be unconstitutional not to take that salary, for, did not the Comsttution pro- vide that * Senators and Representatives shall receive s compensation for their gervices to be ascertained by law and paid out of the Tressury of the United States ?" This pettifogging, tho and. restos party to power in the Btate. Tha usion reached, after soms de- liberation, was, that the party might rise sgain to its feel were it mot for the fact that Matt Carpenter was on:top of it, and two or three mountains on top of Aatt Carpenter, bearing ul- timately- on “its prostrate and bleeding body. Looking up from its supine position, the organi- zation saw on * Matt'a” right shonlder the back- pay grab; on his left the Janesville speech, and on'tha * brosd of his back” the New York Trid- “une's trutha or calumnies, or ‘he Long Branch " Mr. ‘Carpenter’s term expires next year, and the assembled sages, therefors, felt that, it the question of his re-election was made an issue in the fall, the party was undone, and thaz they could never recover the State from the Beform- ers. This, of course, they considered the worat evil that could befall Wisconsin. The gen- eral ‘impression st -the meeting was, that those who had voted for Carpenter in 1869 were opposed to him to-day; that the best men in the party belisved that with Carpenter 83 a candi- date It would be impossible to earry s single As- sembly or Benatorial District.” A letter from o prominent Bepublican who could not be present informed the meeting. that Carpenter, to whom he was personally friendly, was—and he could not.disguise the fact from himself, however much he desired ‘to—in his Congressional Dis- trict the most unpopular man in Congress, “ Bat- ler not excepted " ; that the farmers distrusted him; that their disspprovalof his course was unbounded; that his Janesville speech had ‘cost him not-only “votes, but hearts”; that tho opposition to him could not soom be quelled; = that sny Republican who ad- vocated his re-election wonld, in his Con- gressional District, be certainly defeated; that if the question of his re-election. was bronght into the canvasa next fall, it would be disastrous to the Republican party in Wiscon- sin. A very exciting campaign was to bo expect- ed, and therefore the party should put up as candidates only tho best and parest men it had. Other lotters less classical described the Senstdr 38 * dead cock in the pit,” a **bons of conten— tion,” ete., ete. Bome thought Carpenter would seo how affairs stood, and not make the question of his re-election an issne,—that he womld prefer to leave that question in sbey- anoo, at lcast until after the meeting of the Legislature. The greater number, however, were of opinion that no such mag- nanimity dwelt in his Senatorial . bosom, snd that he wonld rather be wrecked with the party that sent him to Congresa than see it outlive him, since, to be beaten with it wonld be .no personal dishonor, whereas to be defetted by it would. Some advised that his friends should induce him to retire. Some thought his friends possessod no such power, 88 nothing short of Omunipofence wonld effect it. Some suggestod that a State Convention should be called imme- diately to reorgenize the party on a purer and safer basis, and purge it of all foul humors, as was done on another occasion eighteen years befors. "Others, again, proposed to begin the campaign st once. The only conclusion reached, howaver, was that Carpenter must be dropped, or the party bid a long farewell to allita great- ness. ke 4 © "It is not probable that the fste of the BRepub- lican party in Wisconsin depends entirely on Carpenter's course next fall. "It is, however, next to certain that, if the question of his elec- tion is then made an issue, it will have a disin- tegrating infiuence on an. already considerably Qisintegrated part ¢ —e . | GRAIN-INSPECTOR HARPER. . . - The proceedings’of the Board of Railroad and Warohouse Commissioners with' respect to ths charges against the Chiet Grain Inspector are not of & character to inspire’ confidence in’the Board or, restore it -in the Inspector.” The charges were not trivial, nor were they_ anony- mous; they were not obscure nor indefinite; they were distinct and clear in the sccusation that tho Inspector had epeculated in grain, and that ho had used public meney for that purpose. This distinct’ adcusation wis‘made upon the basis of the Inspector’s own books, to which ref- erence was made by date and page. The Com- micsioners had nothing to'do. but to examine the bocks. It the facts stated wero true, then the Tnspector woa guity; it the facts were - not.. a8 stated, then = the charge shonld be publicly dismissed. The Commisgioners made. their -zeport to the Governor upon tha charges sgainst Inspector Harper. It is said that the report was returned to thom by the Governor for Amahdmant, and that, having hmended i, thoy sgain presented it to the Governor. In the meantime the Com- missioners refuse to make the report public. Why? | - S s That our resders may understand what the charge is, and what it rests on, we recapitulate ‘the statement of E. 'W. Bmith, Harper's chiof clerk: That from the 22d of Beptember to the 11th of December, 1873, Harper checked out of the funds of the offics, mainly to his personal order, about $17,000. **None of these checks were drawn to pay the expenses of the office.” Smith gives the dates of all these checks, and declares that during the time covered by them ttthe office was earningover double the amount of the expenses,” He alleges that the official cash sccomnt of the Inspector shows that there ought to have boen, but was nof, a cash balance on hand, Sept. 80, of 38,398 ; Oct. S1, $13,618; Nov. 30, $20,612; Dec. 81, $21,656. He declares thiat at these dates - * these amonnts were not on hand ér m bank,” yet Mr. Harper had certified that the account was truo. Bmith fartheral- leges that, in: November, Harper purchased an entire now set of records and put him to copy- ing the old ones, omitting all entnies of these transactions. This last allegation Mr. Harper answered, by, stating that Smith had kept the original record in such a slovenly mannerthat be had employed the same sloven to make s new record. Nevertheless, clean or unclean, the ccpy did not agree with the original, and the dif- farmers have scen through. They can discover | ference was in the omission of sll referencs to no provision in the Constitution making it oblig- |-transactions which Smith declares related to atory on Congress to pass s back-pay ealary | Harper’s use of the Btato funds for specnlation 1aw, or even to take the pay when it has been-| in grain. voted. These, we think, are the real causes of the There 18 nothing inferential in this accusation. It is pointed and direct. The date and amount Bepublican defeat in Wisconsin. From what we | of each check is given ; the old and new booka learn, howover, wo are disposed to believo that | arein existence, and their. differences can be "the party will die hard. It manifests no disposi- discovered. Mr, Harper can show the amount tion to be undone. It is down, and knows itself | of money on deposit on any day, and how much to be down. But, st the same time, it wants to | ought to have been. Itis a plain and direct re- getup. Only the other day, some of the tried, trus, avd trusted mot in secret conclave at Mil- waukee to discuss the prospects for the faturs. Among the few were some Whose names have cital.of alleged documentary evidence. If the statement was true, Harper was guilty ; if it was not true, he should bs publicly acquitted. The grain_ trade is a matter of too much im- been historicin the State,—acknowledged leaders | portance to be regniated and governed by party of the party. They discussod whether they'| exigencies. The Siate of Ilinols has taken conld not recover what they had lost—like Luci-'|-charge ‘of the inspection of grain inorder to fer, we suppose, when he washunted from Para-.| made it honest. Is the Stats Inspector a spect dise. Theyrecognized that they weredown, and | latar and dealer in grain? Thatisa question of they discussed bow they might rise agaip, | factto be determined by the Warehouse Com- misstoners, and it caunot be altered or shirked by the Governor. The rumors which were cir. oulating on the Board of Trads yesterday wum by no means complimentary to the Commission. ers, the Governar, or the Inspector, aud, if they _were well founded, the Legislatnre might de ‘worso than apply the heroic remedy of abolfsh. ing the Board of Commisaloners aliogether, The public will look with intersat for thig roport. They will expect thess Commissioners to do their duty. . The Governor iz not bound to accep! their conclosions as governing bhis action, bat ho cannol relesse them from their responsibulity to the public. If it be true, as stated, that the Commissioners roported that the Chief Inspector had been guiltyof pecu- lating in grain, and had used the State funds for that purpose, and subsequently changad the report at the request or by the sanction of the Governor, in order to screen tho Inspector, tfien the Board of Railroad and Warehouso Com. missioners mayss well hide their diminished heada forever mora. It will be impossible for them thereafter to cscape the contempt of every man inthe Btate, incdJuding the Governor and the Chief Inspector. When a nowspaper presents Itself in ths charaoterof o moral and religions oculist offering to pluck ont the mote of its neighbor’s eye with- out first casting the beam out of its own eys, it earns the distinction which was awarded to that class of quacks practicing in Judea some eigh- teen hundred years ago, viz.: *‘Thou fool” The Interior seems to be ambitious of this distinction, and not only 80, but it takes great pains to point out its claims therofo. In its issme of Feb. 25 it says : : Religous papers should be held responsible for the sdvertisements sppearing in their columna to s cer- tain extent. A physician who advertises to cure con-~ sumption or cancer, 5 a quack and 2n impostor, and. the editar of s religisus paper émows it Turning to another coluna of the same issue of the Interior, we discover the two following advertisements in close juxtaposition—the same sppearing also in the Northwestern Christian Advocate : OANCER QAX BE CORED. : Dr. G. D. Besbe, formerly Medical Director T. S Army snd Profeasorof Surgery for many years in 3 medical collegein Ghicago, may be consulted regard- ing cases of cancer, or any tumors, the natare of whieh 13 ot fully understood. Dr. Beebo haa had & remarke ahilo degroo of success in the trestment of cancerous Qiseases, and s sbls to guarantes s radical cure ina large proportion of cases, Call before 10 a. m., or ad- dreas by latter, G.D.Beeo, ¢ 4 953 Prairie avenue, Chicsgo,’ A MAY O 4 THOURAND, A CONSUAPTIVE CURED, When death was hourly expected from conmmption, all remedies having failed, accident lad to » discovery whereby Dr. H. James cured his only child with:a preparstion of Cannabia Indica. Honow gives this Toceipt freo on recaipt of two stamps o pay expenses. There is not s singla symptom of consumption that 1t does mot dissipate—night sweats, frritation of ths nerves, dificult expectaration, shArp pains in the lungs, nsusea st the stomach, {naction of the bowels, and wmsting of the muscles. Address Cauppod & Co., 1032 Race stroct, Philadelphis, Pa., giving namo of Interior. & ‘Whereby it appears that, according to his own _confesgion, the editor of the Inferior is know- ingly engaged in imposing on his subscribers, that he acknowledges his responsibility yet re- {fuses to mend his ways. P ‘It gratifies us to add that the editor of tho In- terior yesterday * stopped his psper,”—not his own paper, a8 he should have done, but Tum Trmuxx. This is the only evidence wanting o ‘convinca the publia that he is guilty. d | p— THE SBEIZURE OF BOOKS AND PAPERS, . Mr. 8. B. Eaton, lately of Chicago, now & ‘member of the New York Bar, has writteasn able and interesting pamphlet entitled * Beizing Books snd ‘Papers under the Revenue Laws,” which the New York Chamber of Commerco his published. . The process of seizurs is simple. A spy lodges an information ; s Judge issues & secrot warrant ; the books and papera are seized and aro kept, in' the words of the Iaw, *'ss long as in his [the Judge's] opinion the retention thereof may be necessary.” This ia very different from the seizure of smuggled goods. The two are somstimes spoken of a8 identical in prin; ciple, but ‘Do parallel lis betwsen them. Merchandise, lisble to conflscation, is melzed and held for trial; papers, not lia- blo to confiscation, are seized and held as evi- dence. This arbitrary interference is possible whenever it appeara that ‘“any fraud on the revenue bas been committed.” * Fraud,” in the dictionary, implies deliberate deception; in the Revenue law it implies nothing of the sort. A mistake may have been mado through acci~ dent, ignorance, negligence, omisgion of & tech- nicality, or what not. In any caseit is a fraud. Now, our Bevenue laws are such & masa of cony tradictions and ambiguities, that no man can be, sure of understanding them. The Becretary ofi the Treasury was appealed to for arbitrary inter-. pretations of different phrases five thousand times within the last year. 3lr. Eston eays: The law requires involces, oaths, certificates, and declarations, not once only, bt sometimes in dupli-. cato, and_somotimes in triplicate, of consignors, con- suls, owners, agents, purchasers, and consignees, e~ garding the most minute particalars of cost, markel valug, freights, inland and innumerable other charges, 10 respoct to any of which particularaa singla error, 10 matter 'how unimportant, renders an imporier’s® ‘books and papers liable to geizure. § After the seizure, the importer must look for justice to a set of officials, every ono of whom,, save the Judge and tho Secretary of the Treas- ury, his s “direct pecaniary ‘interest against; him." That their zeal for conviction msybe, sufficiently groat, it is provided tbat not only the goods wrongly entered, but the whole in- voice containing that entry, shall be conSscated. Thus Phelps, Dodgo & Co., charged with ‘fraud to the amount of $1,600, compromised the cazs by paying the Government #nd its suborainates $271,000. The lawis declared to be unconstitutionsl. The power of Congreea in respect to such met- tors is all drawn from the following provisiond of Art, 1, 8ec. 8: The Congress shall have power: TTo Isy and colisct taxos, duties, imposts, and eI~ cizes; and T makaall lsws which ehall bo necessary and propes for carrying into execution tha foregoing powers The fear that tho Fedoral powers might be t0 greatlod to the adoption of the ourth and Fifth Amendments: The right of the people to be recuro in thelr persons, houses, papers, and efects, agzinst unreasonable searches and sefzures, shall mot bo violsted ; and no warrant shall issus but upon probable csuss, SUP- ported by oath or afirmation, and prticulariy deseri. _ing the place to be searched, and the persons or thing to be seized. No person ahall be dsprived of life, Liberty, o PFOP~ arty without due process of law. The Supreme Court has decided that the 4+ due proces of law " refers to the settled ussges and modes of proceeding existing in the com- ‘mon #nd statnte lawof England befors tbs . emigration of our ancastors.” Bfr. Eaton quoter . mass of authorities to show that 3 man caonob compelled to criminate himaelf, by either oral or written testimony, in a cvurtof lswor